03/08/2019
Save the date as ISLA and the Occidental College- Center for Community Based Learning bring Kathy Kobayashi to campus. This is part of the series of events curated by Visiting Scholar, Vicki Ruiz.
"Shades of LA: Collecting Images from LA’s Diverse Family Albums"
Wednesday | March 27th
Choi Auditorium- Occidental College
5:30pm- reception
6pm- talk
Free & open to the public
The Shades of LA at the Los Angeles Public Library is a well-used and well-loved collection of almost 10,000 photos, copied from the diversity of LA’s family albums. They not only represent a wide range of people previously missing from public collections, but they are also important because they show people from inside their communities, inside their families, and not simply the way outsiders might view them.
Kathy Kobayashi is a third-generation Japanese American from Texas, who has lived in Southern California for more than 40 years. As a historical consultant, she worked on Shades of LA and other projects with Carolyn Kozo Cole at the Photo Collection - Los Angeles Public Library, and they co-authored the book, Shades of LA: Pictures from Ethnic Family Albums. She also worked on the statewide Shades of California project, and she has been on the board of Photo Friends for 20 years.
Earlier, she was an undergraduate at Rice University, a Thomas J. Watson Fellow in Europe and East Africa, and a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University, studying American social history for a master’s degree. She also taught at UC Riverside and worked for the California Council for the Humanities.
Funded by the Andrew Mellon Arts & the Urban Experience Grant, Howard & Roberta Ahmanson, with additional support from the Occidental College History Department, /o & Latin American Studies Department.
